Yayoi Kusama Contemporary Artists
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This is a monograph on the extraordinary 40 year career of japanese sculptor and performance artist yayoi kusama, recently the subject of a major retrospective at new york's museum of modern art, which toured the united statse and japan through 1999. In january-march 2000 the serpentine gallery, london will be presenting a large solo exhibition devoted to kusama's work. Internationally noted for her soft sculptures an psychedelic installations, kusama explores themes of love, infinity and obsession throughout her work, from her net-like pattern paintings begun in 1959, to her pop-inspired love happenings in the 1960s, to installations in which every surface has been compulsively covered in polka-dots, mirrors or stuffed phallus-like protrusions. A visionary whose work is unique in the panorama of post-war art, yayoi kusama is known not only as an artist but also as a fashion-designer, poet and novelist all documented in this comprehensive monograph.


